On Nov 23, 2005, at 7:02 AM, Aaron wrote:
At 15:50 -0700 2005/11/22, Bruce Johnson wrote:
In some situations it's advantageous to partition the drive one for
OS X and one for OS9 but for day-to-day use you pprobably don't need
it.
However, if it's a beige G3, you DO have to partition the drive,
because the OS X boot drive/partition has to be smaller than 8 GB.
This is also doable by running Disk Utility from the OS X install.
1) Does the Beige G3 require that the OS X boot partition be within
the FIRST 8GB of the drive? I remember that some systems require that.
All beige G3s require this.
Perhaps it was systems using an ATA card -- I'm not sure. Does any
body know what systems have some variant of this limitation?
An ata card gets around this, but just to be safe, I had an 8G
partition on my HD attached to an ata card.
2) Does this mean that a drive formatted on another system must have
its OS X boot volume satisfy those restrictions in order to be
bootable on the Beige G3, etc., or only that an installer running on
one of the limited systems can't install X except in a volume meeting
those restrictions?
It is a restriction on the beiges, no matter what system initialized
the HD. The beiges can not see more than 8G in the first partition
under X, and the OS needs to be installed there. You may be able to
install on a larger partition, but once you start getting information
written to parts of the disk past the 8G point you will start having
problems.
HTH,
Len
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